Krispy Kreme Challenge 2012
[singlepic id=7291 w=320 h=240 float=right]The premise sounds simple - run from the belltower at NC State to the Krispy Kreme eat a dozen doughnuts and return in under an hour. Approximate distance 5 miles give or take. This isn't the first time we're been to or participated in the challenge and while it is much harder than it sounds - it is likely the most fun race in Raleigh. Congrats to Mark, EdG, Eileen/iLean, BobG 11.75, Zach, Nick, Lisa, Bentley, the rest of the DC crew and anyone else I may have missed that we saw. Special congrats to those runners ...
Rembrandt in America at the NC Museum of Art
The Rembrandt in America exhibit at the NC Museum of Art uses the slogan "You know the name. Now find out why." And much in the same way that I had heard of Genghis Khan I could have told you very little about our other museum guest in the city. Namely he may have been French (not true) and he didn't have a Ninja Turtle named after him (this one is true). Rembrandt in America is the largest collection of Rembrandt paintings ever presented in an American exhibition and the first major exhibition to explore in depth the collecting history of ...
Genghis Khan at NC Museum of Natural Sciences
[singlepic id=7209 w=320 h=240 float=right]The name Genghis Khan is probably a familiar one even if you don't know who he was exactly. Before going to the exhibit at the NC Museum of Natural Science I had a very vague idea of who Genghis Khan was and something of a concept of who he was historically but knew very little about the role he played in history. Genghis Khan is famous as the ruthless Mongol warlord who conquered half the known world. Under his rule, the Mongol Empire grew to be four times the size of the Roman Empire at its largest ...
| BobG on Our float needs a theme… | I drive a Dodge Stratus !!! | [READ MORE] |
| Anthony on Guess (Photo from BobG) | I assume you are speaking from personal experience? | [READ MORE] |
| BobG on Guess (Photo from BobG) | that's cuz when idiots get locked up there, they're gonna yell "DAMN!" | [READ MORE] |
| Nick on Guess (Photo from BobG) | Well I would have never guessed that. It really does look like a dam though. | [READ MORE] |
| BobG on Guess (Photo from BobG) | Wow that took a while. (yes, thats what she said...) This is from the 10th floor of the current Wake Co ... | [READ MORE] |
So I found this website and I debated whether I just show it to BobG or make a funny picture of him and post it. You can see what I decided.
For those of you unaware of Techsideline (and why would you be unless you are a Virginia Tech fan) our friend BobG has a bit of a reputation for answering posts with a simple nope. This has happened to the point that they have coded <bobg></bobg> as nope.
So anyway – Bob – enjoy your nope.
Feel free to share it with Techsideline I’m sure they will make good use of it.
Based on metrics like school performance, green space, and cultural amenities, Raleigh, N.C., ranks No. 1 in Businessweek.com’s first Best Cities ranking
Oh – another award? Just put it in the shelf over there. Next to the others. Yawn…
To most residents of Raleigh, it may not come as a surprise that their city earned the title of America’s Best City. Raleigh shows the cultural graces that go along with anchoring the so-called Research Triangle, home to North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among its many attributes the city sports 867 restaurants, 110 bars, and 51 museums, according to Onboard Informatics, as well as a thriving social scene, good schools, and 12,512 park acres, equal to several times the green space per capita in cities like New York and Los Angeles, according to the Trust for Public Land. It also offers a great deal on nights and weekends—from concerts and opera, to the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes and college sports, to the 30,000-square-foot State Farmers Market.
Raleigh may have a population of only about 400,000 and span about 144 square miles, yet data show it still offers a lot, if only in a smaller package. True, Raleigh may not be the center of the tech universe like San Francisco, a hub of higher education on the same scale as Boston, or a vibrant 24-hour metropolis like New York, but all those cities also offered higher unemployment, a dearth of parks, worse public education, and other negative factors that weighed against them.
Other notables on the list – Winston-Salem, NC [46] home before Raleigh; Dallas, TX [42] you moved up 4 spots Travis – you should jump up another 41 and move here; Durham, NC [37] adding them so no one gets hurt; Greensboro, NC [31] nicest thing anyone ever said about G’boro; and Charlotte, NC [20] just sayin’ – we beat you by DOUBLE DIGITS – just sayin’.
With that quick run through I’d say North Carolina dominated the top 50 with 5 cities listed and by my count in a pretty good order.
Read more about Raleigh here and cruise through the cities we beat here.
I don’t typically spend a lot of time chasing down stories on Division III football and don’t worry I’m not going to start. This one popped up amongst the twitters and given that I am vaguely familiar with this area of Virginia and it is an amazing play I figured it was worth the time and effort to post it. A little background…
Odds are, you’ve never heard of UVa-Wise or Emory & Henry. That’s all right, we’re here to get you up to speed. Emory & Henry is a school located in Virginia, playing as the Wasps in the D-III Old Dominion Athletic Conference. UVa-Wise, or the University of Virginia’s College at Wise (you can see why they just use UVa-Wise), is a member of the NAIA’s Appalachian Athletic Conference and plays as the Highland Cavaliers. The two teams meet annually in what’s called the Southwest Virginia Bowl. Good? Good. [SOURCE]
So that sets the stage – what happens next has to be seen. So ummmm… watch it. The Cavaliers are calling it “The Play” and the Wasps of Emory & Henry I’m sure they have some four-letter words of their own to describe it.
I like Star Wars. I like Darth Vader. I like Kenny Powers.
A NSFW mash-up of Kenny Powers and Darth Vader? Awesome.
Click here to watch the video and enjoy – don’t show George Lucas or it may end up in the next version of the Blu-ray X-ray 3D Hologram version of Star Wars.
[via gammasquad.uproxx.com]
Or maybe a better title would have been “The Carter-Finley Underground.” If you have been a fan or follower of NC State long enough to remember who coached before Chuck Amato than you probably remember when the A.E. Finley Fieldhouse was above ground. And while you may remember it finding a picture of it online didn’t really happen in the 2 minutes I looked for it. [Sorry] The fieldhouse is now under a large section of seats and a scoreboard on the North end of the stadium.
We were at the Carolina Hurricane’s Caniac Carnival and found the stadium door unlocked. Guess where we went?
So these pictures are under the stadium seats where we sat the night before. I know this is just the half-time locker room and visitors locker room at Carter-Finley but everything is surprisingly sparse and very utilitarian. We found the secret hiding place for the ACC, the super awesome wolf-mobile and even where the chain ‘gang’ hangs out with the ball boys.
More pictures after the jump of the hidden fieldhouse…